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camera. she did agree to speak with my partner cnn producer nora. you were in with mia and her mother, i want to make clear her mother was there the whole time. what did she tell you? >> the 11-year-old mia was in that fourth grade classroom that we have heard so much about with ms. garcia and ms. morales. they were watching lilo and stitch, it was the end of the school year, and she said one of her teachers got the email that there was a shooter in the building and went to the door an...

still chief among the questions out there and why is the police department now backtracking on some of their basic findings? officials are going to be holding a briefing in texas in the next hour. lets begin though at this hour with cnns rosa flores live in uvalde. rosa, what are you hearing from some of these children who managed to survive? >> reporter: well, kate, we are hearing about those intense moments when the shooter was inside the classroom, those intense moments when childre...

teachers were slaughtered. they took no action to get into those classrooms as they waited for more equipment. we pressed for more of an explanation, and the response was devastating. listen. >> reporter: sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 9-1-1 saying please, send the please. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. thats not protocol, is it? >> were well aware of that. >> reporter: right, but why was this decision made not to go in...

Go on camera, but she did want to get that out. were told she didnt want to speak to a male because of fear. she would only talk with a female, and after that were also learning mias family says theyre planning to get her into the therapy. joining us is joel, a clinical and forensic psychologist and professor at the university of arizona. thank you for being here. i think you have an important role in helping all of us through the trauma, especially the families that are impacted firsthand. that...

>> what did mia do then? >> she had a friend next to her that she was pretty sure was already dead, and was laying on the ground bleeding out, and she put her hands in her friends blood and then smeared it she said all over her body. she wanted to seem like -- she wanted to look like she was dead. she was scared the gunman was going to come back through the adjoining door back into the classroom, and she wanted to be able to play dead. >> she also told you that she called 9-1-1. >> yeah y. after...

Said good night. and then shot her and killed her. >> he said good night before he shot her? >> good night. and it happened fast after that. he started opening firing in the classroom. he hit the other teacher. a lot of mias friends. at that point mia was hit by fragments of the bullets. you could even see them yesterday on her back, on her shoulders, the back of her head. >> the shooter then she says, went into the adjoining classroom. >> yes. he went through this door to the adjoining classroo...

After that as well. he started open firing in the classroom. he hit the other teacher, a lot of mias friends. at that point mia was hit by fragments of the bullets. you could even see them yesterday on her back, on her shoulders, the back of her head. >> the shooter then she says went into the adjoining classroom. >> yeah, so we went through the doors to the adjoining classroom and at that point mia could hear screams, she heard a lot more gunfire and then she said she heard music. she thinks it...

Adjoining room and mia heard the screams and gunfire after the gunfire stopped, started hearing music and there was loud music playing. she thought it seemed like a shooter had put it on and that it was sad music blasting and i said to mia, can you describe it a little bit more. what did it sound like and mia just kept saying it was so sad, it was so sad. it sounded like i want to kill you music. so at that point mia is laying there in her classroom covered in her friends blood with her friends ...